Injuries from pickleball craze prompt orthopedic study
The Campbell Clinic Foundation has launched a scientific study on local pickleball players. Darnella Bennett (left) and Rex Brown (right) reach for the ball while playing on the Bartlett pickleball courts in 2021 in Shadowlawn Park. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
If you’ve noticed Campbell Clinic sponsors pickleball events: it’s a strategic move to gather data and ultimately educate the public to prevent the growing number of pickleball injuries local orthopedic doctors are seeing.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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